[Server-devel] Installing on dual boot
David, We set up multi-boot for our EduBlog project, see my Wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw Windows Vista may present some additional challenges. Our Multi-boot did not include that. I have a laptop with dual boot (Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10). It uses the Windows boot loader to ask which to use on startup.I want to use the laptop on my travels for demonstrations (using a prototype active antenna). I used the Windows install feature to install Ubuntu from within Windows. In Windows, the space/partition allocated to Ubuntu shows up as a separate drive. Is it possible to install the XS image on top of this configuration, overwriting the Ubuntu OS on drive E but leaving the Windows and dual boot loader intact? Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog
Tarun, you bring up a good point. What do we need to do to activate an email service on the XS server to allow this for moodle registrations? Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/2008 09:20 AM To Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED], Said Ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: Testing EduBlog Hi Pablo, Yes! It works now with the right link! (I had used the link of EduBlog_Instructions). Great! Did you have a chance to look at the modified blog creation interface? I moved the settings into that page so teachers can directly link their own Blogger.com blogs rather than having an admin configuring the blogs for them. I think this is easier to use. However, we can revert to the other version if you disagree. I could post well from th XO this way. 2 comments: - The cursor does not appear in the text area when writing the body. - It's not possible to handle the size of the image... However, this could wait for version 2 ;-) Looking into it. Now, let's talk about the user management. With my new user pflores I could login, then it asked me if I am sure to enroll to the course, y clicked Yes and it appears a banner: Sorry, but you do not currently have permissions to do that (Manage activities). I posted a screenshot of this in my new blog (blog creado desde XO http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/view.php?id=15 ). When I hit Continue it takes me back to the home page. Were you trying to post to a blog or create a new blog? When you enrol you are by default a student so you can post to blogs and view them but not make new ones. I tested creating a new account and these links work. To create a new blog, an admin needs to set your account to a teacher level. How do you envision the ideal process for user registration for our test? (I think when fully completed and installed on the XS, Moodle will authenticate based on the MAC address of the XO) The other question is: How will children create their own account if it needs an administrator approval? It might become a bit impractical... Maybe it's better not needing the approval, and if there is some trouble, the admin can delete unwanted users, what you think? Moodle gives us several authentication options. I will try to implement what you are suggesting as an auth module. Students can just register without any confirmation. Also, email based registration won't work because as far as I know, the XS does not have an email service. Thanks, Tarun On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pablo, I realized that the links on the homepage were pointing to the old pages. I updates the links at wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog. Please let me know if that resolves the first issue you mentioned. Thanks, Tarun Pablo Flores wrote: Hi Tarun. I'm afraid some things in EduBlog are not working as they should when working in an XO. I downloaded the last BrowseNew, which has the new homepage, that is ok. When I go to the Create new blog link ( http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublogtype=course=3section=0return=0 http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublogtype=course=3section=0return=0 http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublogtype=course=3section=0return=0 http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublogtype=course=3section=0return=0 ), it takes me to the moodle login in spanish, so far so good. Then if I try to login with the user teacher, it takes me to an error message that says: This course doesn't exist, and a Continue button. When I press it, it goes back to the home page. The same happens if I login with the user teacheres. If then I go again to the Create new blog link, I can see the courses page, but it's not possible to create a new course, there is no link or option for this. Another problem I found trying to create a new user: I could fill in the registration form, but it never sends me the confirmation email, so I can't finish the process. Other strange behaviour in the XO, is that the logout option never appears
[Server-devel] installing a school server
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server To: Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does the school server understand this disk format? Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no do your own partitioning option yet, sorry). By default, the XS install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID). Joshua, I have documented some of the challenges with LVM+RAID1 here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw You can do RAID1 on a single drive, but it doesn't provide any added protection. To customize the XS ISO so that it allows your own partitioning, the process is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery Tony Pearson (az990tony)___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] DNS Connectivity Issues
Glen, Updated /dev/sda3's version /etc/resolv.conf to change second line to new nameserver. sysresccd etc # cat resolv.conf search venango.org nameserver 12.147.208.166 nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 205.171.2.65 #nameserver 155.70.40.251 #nameserver 205.171.3.65 #nameserver 65.118.27.65 Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Glen Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/2008 03:46 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject DNS Connectivity Issues Today just after noon (edt) our Qwest internet connection (not the one the EDU server is on) went down. I was in the middle of upgrading the DNS servers so it frustrated that task enormously. Qwest seemed to have the service more or less restored by 4:30 PM or so. At that time I noticed an email from ATT saying that they had monitored outages on our ATT circuit (the one the EDU server is on). Apparently this was of an intermittent nature. Apparently Verizon had a fiber cut somewhere The result is that DNS was probably down for 5+ hours and the connection otherwise intermittent. There may still be DNS issues but I am too tired to dig too deeply until tomorrow. 65.118.27.2 was probably configured as a secondary dns in /etc/resolv.conf on edublog. It might be better to change that to 208.67.222.222 (opendns.org) as 65.118.27.2 is no long active. Glen _ Total Blog Directory http://www.totalblogdirectory.com image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango (XS 163)
Tarun, Why does git-pull work on your /home/tarun directory but not the main directory. Does git-pull written in PHP itself? PHP is not part of the standard XS-163 build. I did a standard yum install php and also got php-gd and php-xml. This is at 5.2.4 level. I can download the latest php-5.2.6 source, recompile it with the options you need. However, this means that I have to uninstall the current php, so the Web site must be down for this. I see from who command that you are logged on, so can wait until you are off before I do this. Please advise. Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/2008 11:49 PM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED], Said Ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango (XS 163) Hi Tony, Martin, Tony: Glen told me nothing is blocked in PA. I've tracked the problem to our php install, so my initial suspicion was wrong. PHP was compiled with --disable-dom, but that is required for the GData lib to operate. I tried to find how to install it manually, but so far my searching has only turned up that it is part of the php core and no install is required. Martin: I'm wondering if this has to do with the set up of the school server. I think php is part of the xs build (can't find the exact page, but remember seeing it somewhere). If so, is there a reason for disabling this extension? Thanks, Tarun Tony Pearson wrote: Tarun, Yes, firewall is enabled as part of the standard XS-163 install. I opened up ports for HTTP, HTTPS, SSH.Nobody mentioned 443 as a port that needs to be opened, and I don't know what changes to make to make that happen.However, the blocking should be incoming not outgoing, so perhaps Glen has additional filtering/blocking in Oil City, PA where the machine is located. Glen? image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango
Tarun, I thought I had php-xml already, but it doesn't hurt to re-install I guess. Restarting Apache is trivially safe and easy as follows: [XS-tony ~]$ su - [XS-root ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd:[ OK ] Starting httpd:[ OK ] [XS-root ~]# I did this at 5:17pm Wednesday July 16 India time. Note that DOM/XML is enabled. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16/2008 02:25 AM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED], Said Ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango Hi Tony, I installed the extension php-xml and think that should fix this issue. But, to get it working the site says to restart the webserver (/etc/init.d/httpd restart). I'm hesitant to do that without your guidance. Please let me know if its okay to restart the webserver, or if that may run into the same issues we had in the beginning. Thanks, Tarun image/gifimage/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango (XS 163)
Tarun, Ok, I restarted httpd and confirmed DOM/XML is enabled. Yes, if you get bumped off the system, it will appear you are logged in when perhaps you are not. In my case, I am using wireless at the Le Meridian hotel in Mumbai, so it happened to me today. When I came back in, I saw that I was logged in twice. I could tell that one was much older than the other, and used kill to delete it. I don't understand why 'wall' and 'write' don't reach you on your SSH client, can you issue mesg and verify that it responds is y? D:\ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter passphrase for key '/home/Administrator/.ssh/id_dsa': Last login: Wed Jul 16 05:38:07 2008 from 203.199.55.210 Welcome to Edublog - an OLPC School Server: XS-163 [XS-tony ~]$ who tony pts/02008-07-16 07:43 (124.30.244.228) tony pts/22008-07-16 05:38 (203.199.55.210) tarunpts/32008-07-16 07:35 (124.123.65.230) [XS-root ~]# ps ax | grep tony 4696 ?S 0:00 sshd: tony [priv] 4698 ?S 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/2 4863 ?S 0:00 sshd: tony [priv] 4865 ?S 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 4966 pts/0S 0:00 grep tony [XS-root ~]# kill 4698 [XS-root ~]# ps ax | grep tony 4863 ?S 0:00 sshd: tony [priv] 4865 ?S 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 4968 pts/0S 0:00 grep tony [XS-root ~]# who tony pts/02008-07-16 07:43 (124.30.244.228) tarunpts/32008-07-16 07:35 (124.123.65.230) [XS-root ~]# exit [XS-tony ~]$ mesg is y Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/16/2008 04:32 AM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED], marcel r [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pablo Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED], Said Ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: EduBlog: Issue Posting to Blogger from Venango (XS 163) Hi Tony, I don't think that php-xml was there before. I looked at php and the dom.so file does exist in the modules folder. This may have been from the recent yum install php-xml I ran (it did install a package). I think we should try a webserver restart and see if php detects it. git-pull works fine in /var/www/html/test. I am not sure why there were problems before, but it likely had nothing to do with our server. I'm not sure why it looked like I was online. Perhaps it is because I was unable to run logout? (Power randomly went out). Thanks, Tarun Tony Pearson wrote: Tarun, Why does git-pull work on your /home/tarun directory but not the main directory. Does git-pull written in PHP itself? PHP is not part of the standard XS-163 build. I did a standard yum install php and also got php-gd and php-xml. This is at 5.2.4 level. I can download the latest php-5.2.6 source, recompile it with the options you need. However, this means that I have to uninstall the current php, so the Web site must be down for this. I see from who command that you are logged on, so can wait until you are off before I do this. Please advise. image/gifimage/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Moodle administration
From: Tarun Hi guys, I uploaded a theme I found that I think works much better for the XO and regular browsers as well. I'd like to use this as the base and customize it further to make it look like the mock up pages. Tarun, you need to put the theme in /var/www/html/EduBlog/moodle/theme directory. Let me know when this is done, and I can activate it as the default theme, and allow it as one of the many choices. -- Tony Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Missing theme for Moodle
'', description TEXT, mailformat SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, maildigest SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, maildisplay SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 2, htmleditor SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, ajax SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, autosubscribe SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, trackforums SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, timemodified BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, trustbitmask BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, imagealt VARCHAR(255), screenreader SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, CONSTRAINT mdl_user_id_pk PRIMARY KEY (id) ) Success ... (postgres7): CREATE TABLE mdl_mnet_host ( id BIGSERIAL, deleted SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, wwwroot VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', ip_address VARCHAR(39) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', name VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', public_key TEXT NOT NULL, public_key_expires BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, transport SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, portno SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, last_connect_time BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, last_log_id BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, force_theme SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, theme VARCHAR(100), applicationid BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, CONSTRAINT mdl_mnethost_id_pk PRIMARY KEY (id) ) Success If I need to drop into psql to read the values of these, please let me know. Thanks Tony Pearson ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Beta Server
BTW a teacher in Uruguay created some art work for us. I attached them here (let me know if they don't come through). You can put them on the home page or where ever they seem to fit, if you have time. Greg, Teacher artwork incorporated into the home page. Tony Pearson (az990tony)___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Can't get XS to do nameserver/resolv.conf properly, unable to access URLs
Martin, I got the name serving (DNS client) working. Basically I had to grep my entire /etc for instances of random.xs.laptop.org and change that to the correct value for our ISP provider. It seems that service network restart doesn't re-read the updated /etc/resolv.conf, and so rebooting is required. One key change is creating /etc/sysconfig/olpc_net_config file. This file indicates that the system has already been booted before and not to over-write any IP configurations that are generated on the first boot with DHCP values for eth0. We have static IP, and specified BOOTPROTO=STATIC, but the XS image keeps over-writing what I had done previously, only to find out it did this because olpc_net_config never gets created. By manually creating, it stopcs these other actviities. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Target price and quantitiy
From: Christopher Niem?ller I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware and got some questions. Whats the target price for the school server? How many school server are needed anyway? Whats the typical power source for the server? 12V DC or 24V DC or 110V AC or 230V AC? What are the other conditions like temperature and humidity? Would it be enough if the server is capable of operating between 0?-55?C and 0-90% humidity? Which outlets are really needed (w/ switch)? I guess something like: -4x Ethernet (over the switch) -4x USB2.0 -1x Power Is something like a vga, p/s2, rs232, ... needed? Chris, I put together a school server from parts at a local computer supply store for $530. This is for a project for OLPC Uruguay ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project ) The full parts list is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw In addition to XS, I also have Fedora 7 and Debian 4 Etch installed in a multi-boot GRUB. The software installation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw The entire machine needs only a single RJ45 Ethernet connection. I am able to access the system remotely from my Windows PC using OpenSSH. I have created a customized SysRescCD that allows me to boot into SSHD mode to perform the install and admin remotely. Currently, I have it set up as a RAID1 mirror between two 160GB drives, but I have two 30GB un-raided partitions, for a total space of 190GB. The implementation could easily accomodate larger or more drives to have the 500GB Wad suggests. I need to figure out Moodle+PostgreSQL this week, then I ship it off to its final destination. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 14, Issue 38
From: James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my opinion, avoid creating a false sense of security ... the kids should be taught personal information privacy very early, and the best way to do that is for them to make small mistakes and learn from them. James, While I agree this is a lesson everyone eventually learns, even IBM offers both for its employees, a blogging system that is internal (IBM employees only can read) and one that is external (all clients, prospects, competitors and analysts can read). We have found that some people need to practice on the bunny slopes first, and would prefer not to have their mistakes be so drastic or dire in consequences. Offering a blog option for students/teachers eyes only might be the difference between a parent allowing their kid to participate or not participate. -- Tony___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Beta Server hardware - Description complete
Martin, Here is the changelog. The utility support DOS and WINDOWS. When I called the store, they were under the impression that the manufacturer does not support LINUX, 0801 -- Latest beta 0602 -- Support new version of chipset (I am not sure if my machine has the new chipset n it) 0402 -- What I am currently using from 3/2007. V2-M2A690G BIOS DOS Version 0801 2008/05/20 update Description V-M2A690G 0801 BIOS Latest beta BIOS. File Size 431.71 (KBytes) Download from Global USA Europe China Japan DOS Version 0601 2007/10/16 update Description BIOS update file for V2-M2A690G (Version 0601) Support new version chipset ***Please use Awdflash v1.32 bios utility to flash bios*** File Size 421.06 (KBytes) Download from Global USA Europe China Japan DOS Version 0402 2007/04/30 update Description V series-M2A690G BIOS version 0402 1. First release Bios File Size 379.99 (KBytes) Download from Global USA Europe China Japan Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/15/2008 02:06 PM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: [Server-devel] Beta Server hardware - Description complete 2008/6/15 Tony Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BIOS 0402 is a little of one year old, and there is a newer one from November 2007. Let me know if it is worth the trouble to try to get this upgrade now before I send the machine to Glen? I am now working on the software stack. Do they publish a changelog? m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff image/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server
I think its yum install git-core. Tarun, Thanks. Marten pointed me to resources such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) Did you want me to install just the software, or were there code repository trees that you wanted me to download as well? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project Please review the section: Beta Server Hardware and Software Details -- Tony___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Error in XS-163 during install
Hi Martin, Having successfully installed both Debian 4.0-r3 Etch and Fedora 7-i386 on the machine, I thought I would try to go back to installing XS from the LiveCD. I tried XS-163 and XS-160-noauto, and both failed with the clearpart line23 problem. Hardware details are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw I did a fresh install of Fedora 7-i386 and collected all of the details to help figure out this. uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 19330 155163802+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 14 19330 155163802+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/dm-1: 106 MB, 106896384 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/dm-2: 158.8 GB, 158887733760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19317 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes === (Note: I chose the default setting, having it delete all partitions and build new. It formatted /dev/sdb second drive, even though I did not check the RAID box, and I have confirmed that it is not in RAID mode) mount -l == /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/mapper/pdc_bbbhp1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) [/boot] tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) == /boot/grub/grub.conf (menu.lst links to this) == # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/mapper/pdc_bbbh default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img = anaconda-ks.cfg (generated by the install process) # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us xconfig --startxonboot network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp network --device eth2 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted $1$MSRredacted37Is.p6py2ba7qbS/.50 firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --enforcing timezone America/Phoenix bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=mapper/pdc_bbbh --append=rhgb quiet # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --all --drives=mapper/pdc_bbbh #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=mapper/pdc_bbbh #part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=mapper/pdc_bbbh #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6 #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984 %packages @admin-tools @editors @text-internet @gnome-desktop @core @base @hardware-support @java @base-x @web-server @dial-up @printing @graphical-internet pax == Please advise on how I can go forward on this. Tony___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server
Hi Greg, I'm glad we finally have settled down on a configuration for the EduBlog Beta Server (EBBS) I think we should finalize the Fedora + XS server and get it shipped to Glen by the end of next week. I've updated the wiki here with what I think are the must have and nice to have requirements. Please review. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project Based on suggestions from Wad and Martin, I had been invstigating Debian and KVM alternatives, so if all we want is now an XS machine, I will re-focus my efforts and put those on the back burner. Networking should be setup to plug and play at Glen's hosting site. I have three NICs, but only details for one IP connection. Please confirm. I will test out all three NIC connections, and then set one to match Glen's requirements. Also, I need you to finalize the domain name. The XS might decide one is for WAN and the other two are for LAN for me. If we can get an image on CD too that let us boot and install it back to default config (preferably without overwriting new stuff but not critical) that would be helpful too. Yes, I have been exploring Mondo Rescue and SysRescCD partimage methods. I will include CDs/DVDs in the box sent to Glen. Debian is a stretch goal. I want to make sure we get it to the hosting site in time to have a full week of config/debug before you go back on the road (June 30?). I can probably drop in Debian in a separate partition, but will leave that for last. I will be travelling to Japan/India July 5-20. This is a business trip for IBM, so I will have my laptop and cell phone, and may be able to help with the installation remotely. I will test my ability to connect from my laptop to the EBBS to confirm. Marcel will be lead sys admin so he will need user/pass access. Tarun needs SU access too and I could us a login. Please don't send any passwords on this list. I'll open a separate thread with Glen to work out the logistics. Send me a list of users and their email addresses, and I will set them all up. I wonder if we need a terminal server? I hope we can run it without that but if its needed and Glen will host it, I can look for one (probably need to buy it :-(. Glen should have a screen, keyboard and mouse. This could be KVM switched with existing equipment he already has. For example, I have a 4-way KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch that connects my Apple Mac OS, my Windows XP, and this new EBBS all on the same keyboard/mouse and video screen. I hit Scroll-Lock / Scroll-Lock / Up sequence to change to the next screen (or you can press the button on the switch itself to pick one, but I am too lazy to get out of my chair). The EBBS uses round PS2 style keyboard and mouse connections (USB keyboard and mouse connections might need some changes to configuration) My biggest concern is that once it is in Pennsylvania, Glen will be the one doing most of the work if there are any problems with Internet connections, SU logins, etc. I will do the best I can for it be read out of the box, and have enough on there so that any minor updates could be done via wget or yum. Glen should be able to use any Windows machine via OpenSSH to access the command line console. (Glen, if you need something, I can get you connected for a refurbished IBM system for a few hundred bucks, let me know). Thanks ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server
Tarun, I have no idea what git is. Is it something I can install using yum? If not, please provide me location for Red Hat rpm file for it, or other instructions. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/2008 09:21 PM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED], server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server Hi Tony, Just a thought, could you install git on the server? It would make it easier to just run a script rather than doing stuff manually and uploading with ftp. Thanks, Tarun image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Grub, KVM and debootstrap
If the machine can be set to run the kvm-based virtualisation, you can run both F7 and Debian in separate VMs, providing both environments to Tarun. Martin, Thanks for the suggestions. I was not able to get dual-boot working properly. Somehow installing Fedora 7 next to Debian 4 clobbers each others GRUB setup. I'll need to learn more about GRUB repairs, the Master Boot Record (MBR) and some other alternatives. The KVM idea is interesting one. It is fairly new, so I will have to check that both kernes are 2.6.20 to support, and that the issues with using AMD were resolved. The question would be how two images would share the IP address? This machine will be located in Pennsylvania, and accessed remotely from Uruguay. Or to make it easier you could run a Debian LAMP stack in a Debian chroot (see if you can find a howto for debootstrap on Fedora). I will investigate. This might make more sense. Run Fedora as the base OS, and then only switch to Debian when testing out something special. -- Tony___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay
Greg, The XS hardware is up and running, and now am encountering some software issues that I may need help from the server-devel list to resolve. Hardware: V3-M2A690G barebones PC with M2A-VM motherboard, power supply and tower case, The M2A-VM motherboard has ATI SB600 RAID controller, ATI Radeon 1200 Graphics, 8 USB ports, built-in NIC. AMD Athlon64 X2 dual-core 2.3 Ghz processor with heatsink/fan Two extra NIC cards (PCI) 10/100 with RJ-45 ports One DVD-RW drive, attached on primary IDE-Master Two SATA drives, 160GB each, connected on SATA1 and SATA2. One 2GB DIMM. I had it almost all together yesterday in four hours, but had to go back to the store to get an extra SATA power cable adapter and return an extra SATA signal cable. I took photos, so I might be able to document the process for future hardware builds. The XS-163.iso would freeze because there was no Partition Table on the disks. I was able to fully install 64-bit Fedora Core 8-AMD64 on the system, which was enough to put partition table on /dev/sda and format an ext3 file system. After that, I was able to fully install 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 on the system. Both run in full graphics mode, and I was able to test all the memory, verify ethernet connectivity, etc. Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select Run from Image (the first choice) and it claims that ATI Radeon 1200 is not supported, and that it will go into text-only mode for the install. I figure this is not really a problem, since this is a text-only server eventually. I suspect there are Radeon 1200 drivers on later versions of Linux, so it might be something I can fix after the fact. Problem 2: I log in as root and run the ./olpc-install and it fails on line 23 saying Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command with a big red button to reboot. (see attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg for screen shot) Rebooting without the XS-ISO cd results in running the current 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 that I had installed previously, so it looks like it didn't wipe out anything. I tried this with both XS-163 and XS-150 (from back in February) and got similar failure messages. My next try will be the XS-160-noauto ISO file. I could also try to do the kickstart manually? Would that work? If I do that, would I be better off doing Fedora7-AMD64 instead or stay with the 32-bit version? Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE, RAID and AHCI. With RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the two drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem that Linux recognizes that. With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives. I found this link, indicating that the ATI SB600 fakeraid support through the dmraid device mapper is supported in AHCI mode, but if I say AHCI on the BIOS setting, it treats the two drives separately. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ahci I could instead go for a software-based Linux LVM mirroring. In that case, I might use the BIOS=AHCI setting, and then set up the LVM, but that is different than the LVM setup in that base XS kickstart file. Please advise. Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay
Martin, I'll try the lspci commands to see what it says. What dmesg should I look for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep sd[ab] I get that it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID mode. The autoinstall' fails either because of the Radeon X1200 or the clearpart command on Line 23. I've burned a copy of XS-160-noauto if you want me to try that. I've been scanning the Fedora forums for dmraid support, and it doesn't look like it has support for this SB600 SATA RAID controller. Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to Greg's request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is what it is. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/2008 08:41 AM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay 2008/6/5 Tony Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hardware: Nice hw! But the sata controler might not be supported. When you load F8 64-bit or Ubuntu, - what does lspci say about the SATA controller? - what kernel module loads for it? (dmesg will name it) Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select Run from Image (the first choice) and it claims that ATI Radeon 1200 is not supported, and that it It often complains about graphics cards. Nothing to worry about - Compiz won't be enabled on the XS ;-) Problem 2: I log in as root and run the ./olpc-install and it fails on line 23 saying Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command with a big red button to reboot. (see attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg for screen shot) Recent images are auto install so you don't need to run olpc-install by hand... Would that work? If I do that, would I be better off doing Fedora7-AMD64 instead or stay with the 32-bit version? Unfortunately, we have a few custom packages that are compiled 32-bit only (nothing too bad, just a recompile away) - but I think your problem is with missing drivers in F7. Can you try installing F7 32bits? Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE, RAID and AHCI. With RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the two drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem that Linux recognizes that. With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives. No idea bout AHCI or fakeraid - sorry Now - one point I'd like to understand better - when you say for uruguay you don't mean the Ceibal team, right? (From OLPC perspective, if you talk about schoolservers in Uruguay, the Ceibal team is what I think of...). You are doing this for the Edublog Uruguay team... yes? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff image/jpeg___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
